Dr. Arella Gussow
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Profile
Dr. Arella Gussow is a cognitive scientist who specializes in psycholinguistics. Her research interests focus on spoken language comprehension and production: What guides speakers’ choice of words and sentence structures in everyday language use? How do speakers plan their utterances if they are still uncertain about what to say? In what ways do language processing strategies vary between speakers of different languages? How do comprehenders integrate linguistic and contextual cues to anticipate upcoming words? She also explores similarities between production planning in language and non-linguistic motor actions, asking what planning principles are language-specific versus domain-general.
Dr. Gussow’s background includes broad international training in experimental psychology, neurolinguistics, and cognitive neuroscience. She completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) in Spain, and her B.A. in Psychology and Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
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Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Gussow, A. E., & MacDonald, M. C. (2023). Utterance planning under message uncertainty: Evidence from a novel picture naming paradigm. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 23(3), 957–972.
Gussow, A. E., Weiss, D.J., & MacDonald, M.C. (2023). Repetition parallels in language and motor action: Evidence from tongue twisters and finger fumblers. Journal of Experimental Psychology:General, 152(10), 2775–2792.
Lebkuecher, A. L., Schwob, N., Kabasa, M., Gussow, A. E., MacDonald, M. C., & Weiss, D. J. (2022). Hysteresis in motor and language production. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(3), 511-527.
Gussow, A. E., Kapnoula, E. C., & Molinaro, N. (2019). Any leftovers from a discarded prediction? Evidence from eye-movements during sentence comprehension. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(8), 1041-1058.
Book ChaptersGussow, A. E. (2023). Language production under uncertainty: When, why, and how we speak before we think. In K. D. Federmeier & J. Montag (Eds.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Speaking, Writing, and Communicating, Vol. 78. Academic Press.